3?0 TEE OEUISE OF THE ' GUliAQOA.' 



PLATE IX. 

 BEIPIDUBA SPILODEBA. 



(Ehipidura spilodera, G. E. Gr. Ann. and. Mag. of N. H. 1870, p. 330.) 



Fuscous black ; eyebrows white ; throat and breast white, each 

 feather triangularly marked in the middle with black ; abdomen 

 pale fulvous white ; quills dark fuscous black ; tail fuscous black, 

 with the tips and inner margins more or less white. 



Length 7", wings 3", bill 1"', tarsi 12"'. 



' Eyes black. Contents of stomach, insects. Female.' 



This bird, of which there is only one example, was obtained at 

 Vanua Lava, Banks' G-roup. It is like Rhijpidura pectoralis, 

 Homb. & Jacq., of the island of Vanikoro ; but the spots on the 

 breast extend up to the chin. 



